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by bigyikes 2y ago
Last night I finished reading “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl. A theme of the book is that a sense of meaninglessness is often a driver of depression, and that it is up to each of us to find our unique meaning of life in order t
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by bigyikes 2y ago
I’m not sure I’ve seen anyone disagree with the premise that phone and social media addiction is bad for kids (and probably adults too), and yet we still find ourselves in this position. What are we to do? Banning phone use on an individual
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by bigyikes 2y ago
85% of nuclear reactors are built in under 10 years[1]. It also seems to me that if there were sufficient political willpower that improvements could be made here. It’s a bit like how anti-solar folks complain about the massive cost while i
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by bigyikes 2y ago
I love these crackdowns and increasingly granular permissions. They did a similar thing for photos a while back. I wish they’d crack down on advertisements in notifications. Sleazy players like Uber will spam you with ads, so you’re forced
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by bigyikes 2y ago
You might be technically correct, but if you extend that logic, why not just make the grid 1x1 and select a single color? The grid size is part of the pattern in the same way that the colors are part of the pattern. It’s not just a color
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by bigyikes 2y ago
Dwarkesh just released an interview with Francois Chollet (partner of OP). I’ve only listened to a few minutes so far, but I’m very interested in hearing more about his conceptions of the limitations of LLMs. https://youtu.be&#x2
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by bigyikes 2y ago
What is the fundamental difference between ARC and a standard IQ test? On the surface they seem similar in that they both involve deducing and generalizing visual patterns. Is there something special about these questions that makes them re
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by bigyikes 2y ago
Have you tried a Vision Pro? The immersive video was the highlight for me. It makes you feel like you’re really there, on a level I hadn’t experienced with a Quest.
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by bigyikes 2y ago
Thanks, this is a helpful comment. It isn’t clear to me that these models destroy incentive to create. I mean, ChatGPT can generate comments in my style all day, and yet I’m still incentivized to comment. I fancy myself a photographer. I st
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by bigyikes 2y ago
I personally disagree but you make fair points. Scale: Many companies (e.g. Google, Bing) have been scraping at scale for decades without issue. Why does scale become an issue when an LLM is thrown into the mix? Informed consent: I’m not su
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by bigyikes 2y ago
Does that imply I just stole your comment by reading it? No snark intended; I’m seriously asking. If the answer is “no” then where do you draw the line?
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by bigyikes 2y ago
> just trained a new OS development AI on every OS Apple has ever written. …is there publicly visible source code for every OS Apple has ever written?
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by bigyikes 2y ago
My home is filled with Apple HomePods even though Siri is dumb as rocks. Looking forward to my house gaining a few IQ points. I don’t see anything that mentions HomePod specifically but hopefully the updates will come.
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by bigyikes 2y ago
Maybe they should take that 17B and invest it in AI research, then take the resulting model and ask it what particles we’ll find at higher energies. Just kidding, please don’t lambaste me. 17B is no small sum but we’re talking about investi
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by bigyikes 2y ago
I love how the demo video operates on a corn kernel. First they did surgery on a grape, now they did surgery on a corn :) It’s a bit surprising to me that this came from Sony. What a group! They create top of the line gaming consoles, digit
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by bigyikes 2y ago
My grandparents each recently had a similar knee surgery done. My grandfather’s was performed manually by a human. It took him a couple of weeks to get walking again. My grandmother’s was done via a DaVinci bot, and she was walking in just
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by bigyikes 2y ago
GPT-4o retrieved this for me: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/09/06/apple-inks-new-deal-arm...
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by bigyikes 2y ago
Is this applying the learnings from vision transformers to language transformers? If I understand correctly, vision models split an image into tiles and append a positional encoding to each so the model can understand the relative position
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by bigyikes 2y ago
Is your argument that because AI can’t currently do the arbitrary things you wish it would do, it is therefore bullshit? This perspective discounts two important things: 1. All the things it can obviously do very well today 2. Future advanc
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by bigyikes 2y ago
Can you say more? Does “magical thinking” mean religion, or something else? I’m actually curious.
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by bigyikes 2y ago
i’m not sure whether there’s any physiological basis for this, but subjectively having an addiction feels a lot like having an additional need in the same vein as hunger and thirst. The addict’s mind is convinced it does “need” the substanc
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by bigyikes 2y ago
Weird. If I were to personify Windows, it’d be a creepy guy who touches me without consent. Since, you know, Microsoft loves to force updates on you at the most inconvenient times.
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by bigyikes 2y ago
If you haven’t already, download Rectangle for Mac. It makes window management sane.
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by bigyikes 2y ago
Ah interesting, how do they usually conclude for you? My 1:1s never end early and it feels like we keep on bullshitting for longer than either of us want or need.
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by bigyikes 2y ago
I’m intensely introverted, so that likely colors my perspective. I am curious what “relationship building” looks like to you in a business context. I somewhat enjoyed 1:1s with a previous manager of mine. I did feel we built a good relation
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by bigyikes 2y ago
Yeah maybe I should just say I don’t need to meet. Doing so feels like a faux pa or a failing of my duties somehow. Maybe it’s just in my head.
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by bigyikes 2y ago
I dread 1:1s with my manager. I simply do not have that much to say that I do not already say in group meetings or other channels. I find myself racking my brain to come up with agenda items to fill the time and save face. Sometimes private
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by bigyikes 2y ago
Very clever. Ticketmaster and McDonalds are both multi billion dollar corporations. How does capital factor into this? The person you’re replying to was highlighting the difference in food safety policies versus data safety policies.
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by bigyikes 2y ago
Breaking: people in public don’t want to be seen by the public. It’s a detailed breakdown of a technically impressive project and your main takeaway is the 5 seconds in the demo where a guy covers his face? Kudos to the author for making so
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by bigyikes 2y ago
not doubting you but how does it take a year to remove twitter references? surely twitter has some internal code search tool like Sourcegraph which would let them easily search for all variations of “twitter”, right? /twi?t*e?r/gi

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